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You know, all the flap about James frey just bothered me, I thought it was much ado about nothing. He wrote a wonderful book.

In Augusten Burrough's latest book (don't read it you guys you'll wonder about me that I like him), he made a disclaimer that some things had been exagerated or something like that. He writes memoirs as well.

I bet all the memoir writers do that now. Dang, where is the poetic license?

James Frey wildy lied his head off, and made a lot of money in the process. But, worse than that, he argued against the principles of 12 Step Programs for recovery from alcoholism and substance abuse, and people believe him. People with real alcohol and substance abuse problems rejected programs that offered real and substantive ways of dealing with their problems constructively, all because of this jerk's lies. That is not a good thing.